Re: JMT in September?
Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 9:26 pm
B2:
Oldranger has it right (though I insist we're not old -- don't know why he'd choose a name like that...). Late August/September would be great to hike the JMT. Not impossible you'd get some snow early September, but as long as you've got a couple of days extra food to hang out, it'll almost certainly melt. In the 80s, it was not uncommon to get these huge rain/hurricane systems that would mean you'd have to hunker down for as long as 3 days, but they don't seem to happen as often now.
Anyway, a great time to hike. We just had a semi-solid snow storm (October 4th) which left 5" to drifts of 2 feet above 10,000 feet (deepest on passes). It's melting rapidly as I came out (though passes will likely remain gnarly for a week or so -- maybe even from now on). But I can't think of storms like that in September in the past.
Send me a note as you get closer, maybe we can rendezvous.
take care,
g.
Oldranger has it right (though I insist we're not old -- don't know why he'd choose a name like that...). Late August/September would be great to hike the JMT. Not impossible you'd get some snow early September, but as long as you've got a couple of days extra food to hang out, it'll almost certainly melt. In the 80s, it was not uncommon to get these huge rain/hurricane systems that would mean you'd have to hunker down for as long as 3 days, but they don't seem to happen as often now.
Anyway, a great time to hike. We just had a semi-solid snow storm (October 4th) which left 5" to drifts of 2 feet above 10,000 feet (deepest on passes). It's melting rapidly as I came out (though passes will likely remain gnarly for a week or so -- maybe even from now on). But I can't think of storms like that in September in the past.
Send me a note as you get closer, maybe we can rendezvous.
take care,
g.
